Here is a link to an article I wrote called "Shakespearean Slide Shows" - https://mseffie.com/assignments/shakespeare/Shakespeare%20Slide%20Shows.pdf
Below are some from MACBETH that could work for your students:
Macbeth
Scenes 4 - 7
1. King Duncan officially names his son Malcolm as the heir to the throne.
2. Macbeth realizes that now Malcolm is also in his way if he is going to be king.
3. Lady Macbeth reads a letter from Macbeth. She learns of the prophecies.
4. Lady Macbeth believes that Macbeth is not strong enough to do what must be done.
5. Lady Macbeth swears that she can be evil enough to murder Duncan.
1. Macbeth arrives and tells Lady Macbeth that Duncan will be staying at their castle tonight.
2. Lady Macbeth declares that Duncan will not leave as planned in the morning. She warns Macbeth to look innocent.
3. Macbeth starts to doubt the murderous plan.
4. Macbeth tells Lady Macbeth that they should not go ahead with their plan.
5. Lady Macbeth declares that Macbeth needs to overcome his fear and be brave. Macbeth is stunned by his wife's evil nature.
Macbeth Scene 5 Human Slide Show
Characters: Macbeth, Lady Macbeth
1. Macbeth arrives and tells Lady Macbeth that Duncan will be staying at their castle tonight.
2. Lady Macbeth declares that Duncan will not leave as planned in the morning. She warns Macbeth to look innocent.
3. Macbeth starts to doubt the murderous plan.
4. Macbeth tells Lady Macbeth that they should not go ahead with their plan.
5. Lady Macbeth declares that Macbeth needs to overcome his fear and be brave. Macbeth is stunned by his wife's evil nature.
Macbeth Human Slide Show
Scenes 7 - 8
Characters: Macbeth, Lady Macbeth.
1. "We will proceed no further in this business."
Macbeth tells Lady Macbeth that he does not want to go through with the murder.
2. "Be so much more the man!"
Lady Macbeth demands that he be brave and carry out their plan.
3. "If we should fail?"
Macbeth expresses doubt and worry.
4. "Screw your courage to the sticking place and we'll not fail!"
Lady Macbeth declares that they will be victorious!
5. "Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle to my hand?"
Macbeth's mind starts playing tricks on him. He believes he sees a dagger floating in the air.
(A bell rings.)
6. "I go and it is done. The bell invites me."
Macbeth leaves to commit the murder.
Macbeth Human Slide Show
Scene 8
Characters: Duncan, Guards, Lady Macbeth.
1. King Duncan is asleep in his bedchamber.
2. Lady Macbeth gives Duncan's bodyguards lots of wine.
3. The bodyguards fall asleep and Lady Macbeth takes their daggers.
4. Lady Macbeth lays the daggers near Duncan. She looks at him sleeping:
"Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done't."
5. Lady Macbeth leaves.
Macbeth Human Slide Show
Scene 9
Characters: Duncan, Guards, Macbeth, Lady Macbeth.
1. Macbeth enters the king's bedchambers and finds the daggers.
2. Macbeth stabs Duncan.
(An owl shrieks.)
3. Macbeth thinks he hears a voice cry, "Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep!"
4. Macbeth returns to Lady Macbeth who notices that he has the daggers in his hands.
5. Lady Macbeth tells him to "Smear the sleepy grooms with blood," but Macbeth refuses.
(Knocking)
6. Lady Macbeth returns to the murder scene and smears the bodyguards with blood and leaves the daggers near them.
(Knocking)
7. Macbeth looks at his bloody hands. Lady Macbeth returns and declares "A little water clears us of this deed."
(Knocking-"Wake Duncan with this knocking! I would thou couldst!")
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Rosalind Flynn
Head of the M.A. in Theatre Education
Director, The High School Drama Institute
The Catholic University of America
Washington, DC
drama.cua.edu/graduate/MATE
drama.cua.edu/summer
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Original Message:
Sent: 12-04-2024 17:28
From: John Rowe
Subject: Classroom Project for upcoming production of Macbeth
Hello,
We are doing a production of The Scottish Play next semester and I need an end-of-semester project that will help lead both actors and tech people into the work after break. It can be an essay from question prompts, a set of short answer questions or really any kind of project that can engage everyone and put them onto the fun.
Wondering if anyone has any such assignments, projects or activities that might work.
Many thanks,
John
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John Rowe
Theatre Teacher, Advisor Washington Street Players
Boise High School
ID
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